ChanceyFleet on Nostr: Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity is Nearer has a rough review in the NYT today. ...
Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity is Nearer has a rough review in the NYT today. I’m not here to talk about that. To Blind people, Ray Kurzweil is famous not as a futurist but as the guy who asked a Blind stranger on a plane for a problem to solve in the 70s, then created a text-reading machine whose descendats we now use every day to access print. He comes to our conventions and contributes to scholarships. He’s been a true friend to us for half a century
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